New Hope: Training and Jobs at AIMS

A couple standing near their wrecked house with fishing net holding the "roof"

A natural disaster has swept away all you had--house, belongings, money, and some family members.

You have survived. You have been helped with food and shelter. But you have to start over.

Ultimately, you and your family will have to become self-sufficient.

In Kerala, there was a helping hand immediately. The M. A. Math, a humanitarian organization which has long reached out not only in Kerala but all over India, immediately stepped forward. After participating in the first relief measures (evacuation, temporary shelter, food, clothing, etc.), the Math stayed involved, looking to the future. Ready to help answer that question: How?

A fishing family (mother & child)

Fisherman holding nets near smashed boats

How can people who used to live (precariously in the best of times) by fishing, whose boats are gone, whose harbors are damaged, make a living now?

They have no experience, no training, no resources with which to get these, and no connections.

No hope.

No hope until someone steps in and says: if you'll accept the training, we'll give it, and we’ll hire you or help you get a job elsewhere.